Current research interests include: algorithmic counterpoint, robotic drawing, biofeedback visualization and aurilization, ambient music, ecological simulation, neural networks, recursive sentence generation, pink noise and complexity.

Basak joined MAT program as a Fulbright scholar in 2006. After working as a research scientist for a year, she commenced her PhD studies in 2009. Basak has been working on information and scientific visualization topics for the past six years. She worked for Microsoft Research, Seattle (2010), IBM Research, Almaden (2011) and Inria, Saclay (2012).

Her current research interests lie at the intersection of information and scientific visualization techniques. Specifically, the topic of her doctoral research is bridging 2D and 3D representations through novel interaction and visualization techniques that would benefit visualization of both abstract and scientific data sets.

Ivana is interested in acoustics, electronic instruments, perception and neuronal responses to sound, vibration and music. Primarily engineer and scientist, with great passion for music because of its power to communicate and improve physiological and psychological states, she strives to understand the underlying mechanisms of such phenomena. Her goal is to use the scientific knowledge of neuronal responses to sound in harmonizing acoustic environment.

BS, MS in Computer Science

Danny's research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and media arts, and are strongly informed by cybernetics, systems theory, and biologically-inspired engineering. Through the creation of robotic systems and environments, and through the analysis of historical and current representations of robotic beings in popular media such as cinema, television, and games, he aims to explore and illuminate the relationships between intelligence, physical embodiment, perception, awareness, and emotion. He has designed robotics and digital systems for arts and engineering projects in California, the United Kingdom, and Japan, and is currently a fellow of the Robert W. Deutsch foundation.

Research in conformal geometric algebra and hyperbolic transformations.

John Delaney is a UC Berkeley graduate and former Civil Engineering Designer who has always had a passion for art and music.  He is studying computer graphics design, with an emphasis on manifold modeling, fluid dynamics, and real-time raytracing.

Sölen is a researcher and practitioner in media arts and design. Her work primarily concerns with the intersections of computational media processes and spatial practices. Her research interests are interaction design, embodied cognition and perception.

She holds a BSc in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University and an MArch from University of Southern California (USC). She has worked on several architectural projects in Los Angeles area. She is the recipient of UCIRA Social Ecologies Grant, VIDA 13.0 Artistic Production Incentives, and IHC (Interdisciplinary Humanities Center) Media Arts Award.

Joshua Dickinson is a composer and computational artist.  His research involves human-computer interaction, cultural analytics, and artificial creativity.  He holds a BA in music composition from Columbia University.

Research Interests

Spatial Computing, Algorithmic Architectures, Real-Time Graphics, Generative Processes, Data Visualization, New media tools for DJing/VJing, BioInspired Processes & Technologies, Emergence, Complex Systems, Symmetries, Self Organization

I am a researcher, designer and media artist with a diverse background ranging from fashion and automotive design to architecture and live visuals. I hold a Bachelor of Science in Design from University of Cincinnati, Department of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and MFA from Design Media Arts, UCLA.

Drawing upon cultural anthropology, my research is focused on the evolution of the symbiotic relationship of technology and the human with the aim of creating crossover points into dimensions and ecologies referred to as ‘utopia’, whether technological, architectural or social. My interest lies in questions that debunk prescriptions within either of these categories, and to instead offer neolexia for our future hybrid bodies.

My latest work looks at the merger of architecture with the human body.

Yuan-Yi Fan is an interaction designer and multimedia artist interested in how form and narrative in new media influence perception. Through creating affective interface and interactive art installations, he looks for relations between representation, perception, and awareness. During his doctoral studies, he held research internship positions at Nokia Research Center Hollywood in 2011 and Oblong Industries Inc. Los Angeles in 2012.

David Gordon creates music, visual art and software that explore multisensory perception through the interaction of sound and visuals. He has a particular interest in finding patterns shared by artworks and natural systems. Recent projects include interactive sound visualization, biologically-inspired music, algorithmic composition and sonification.

Yoon Chung Han was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1983 and lives and works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco. She received BFA and MFA from Seoul National University with specialty in graphic design and interactive media design and achieved her second MFA in Design | Media Arts department in UCLA in 2010. Her major interest is an interactive art, especially focusing on sound. She made new kinds of musical instruments, experimental sound interface and interactive sound installations. Her works were introduced in major media art festivals internationally such as Siggraph Art Gallery 2009 in USA, 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in Tokyo, 4th Take Away Festival of DIY Media in London Science Museum, Videotage in Hong Kong, and Collider in University of Akron. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D degree at MAT program in UCSB.

Guitarist, programmer, and expert pillow fighter.

Research interests include machine learning aided algorithmic composition and visualization.

Bachelors degree in Digital Media Arts and Technology. Current research interests are Human Computer Interaction, 3D animation, and computer graphics.

MS Media Arts and Technology, UCSB

BSEE, UT Dallas

Interests: Musique concrete, Sonification, Visual Music, Spatial Audio, Biofeedback as a means to music compostion.

Casey Mongoven is a composer who works exclusively with Fibonacci-related mathematics. He is currently working on his dissertation The Style of Music Characterized by Mathematical Objects Fundamentally Related to the Fibonacci Sequence. He holds a B.M. in Classical Composition from New England Conservatory of Music and a Zertifikat Ergänzungsstudium in Electro-Acoustic Composition from the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar, Germany.

Developing works exploring the juxtaposition and interaction between physical kinetic form and visualization technology.

Gustavo Alfonso Rincon (M.Arch., MFA, B.Sc., BA) is educated as an architect, visual artist and currently is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Program in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) in the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).  He holds Masters Degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as well as a Masters in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  Currently, he works with the AlloSphere Group as a researcher with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) in UCSB. 

My main interest is tools and interfaces for live electronic music performance.

Sahar Sajadieh is a post media and performance artivist(artist/activist) and scholar,  performer, poet, playwright, theater director and computer scientist originally from Iran.  She is an alien resident of the United States and a non-alien non-resident citizen of Canada. 

Sahar’s research interest is in finding her research interests and her identity is in the process of development through her search for identity! She is hoping to develop a digital technology through which she can watch you through the picture close to her bio on the website!

Additionally, Sahar is interested in transciplinary post-experimentation in post-performative post-technologist notion of arts. In her research she is seeking to explore the application of post-intelligent augmented systems, multi-level cognitive spaces, Post-humanist virtual machine learning techniques, n-dimensional cyber-sonified visualization methods, and finally multi-dimensional robotic body architectures in the enhancement of scientific arts and artistic technologies. She is very excited for being here.

F.Myles Sciotto is an architect interested in empirical space, the ways in which structure imposes affect and the dialogue between the visceral and theoretical experience.  F.Myles explores "Alternity", an experiential translation of the mind/body and how the subconscious is able to inform its surroundings. The goal is to develop intelligent architectures created from bio-data and pattern processing, synthesized within new spatial interfaces.

I am an artist technologist, inspired by the music and dance of nature, in love with life and the air in my lungs. It is my desire to explore the relationships between healing, creativity, and spontaneous expression through interactive and performative audiovisual environments.